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Monday June 3rd 18:30 - 20:30
Taking the idea of the ‘Black Interior’ as a space for radical imagining, this workshop will explore how to write poems that speak with the errant strangeness of our innermost beings.
With a focus for the ways that the interior shapes both our selfhood and our relation to others and the terms of the world, we will read poems by Ama Codjoe, June Jordan, and Harmony Holiday amongst others. Participants will be guided to generate new writing and receive feedback within the session.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf.
Established in 2018, the87press is an Asian, LGBTQIA+, and neurodiverse led publishing collective and events curator in South London. We prioritize modernism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and environmentalism in our print publications of poetry, fiction, and essays. Additionally, we offer educational and creative workshops, industry leading live events, and regular commissioned work with online journal of culture theHythe. Committed to equity, all authors receive fair contracts regardless of their background. As part of Arts Council England's National Portfolio, we contribute to the Let's Create project and look forward to fostering inclusive learning spaces as the only NPO in the London Borough of Sutton.
